At Wuzhen Theatre Festival, they "one sentence is worth 10,000 sentences"
These days, the drama is very busy. In Wuzhen, the drama can throw people up high, but still steadily catch it-the Wuzhen Drama Festival, which has re-started after two years, except for the "star-studded" presidium and performance lineup. The guests sitting in the auditorium "observing secretly" are also cultural celebrities and celebrities. Everyone speaks for the drama on different occasions, just as the torrent of thousands of thoughts in the writer Liu Zhenyun's pen finally converged into "a sentence worth 10,000 sentences". saying.
Drama and variety shows are on this side and the other side of a river
Wuzhen Theatre Festival has been absent for a year, and half of the sky in the international sector has collapsed this year. Why did you come back?
The screenwriter Shi Hang said, "No one thinks she shouldn't come back, just like a plant. No one asks her why you want to bloom. This is the power of nature. Everyone's wish becomes a kind of aspiration, and Wuzhen is here. "In his view, "Last year was like a quiet period and a charging period, and this year's return has a very important section, which is the repertoire born out of "Drama New Life" and "Talk Show Conference". Drama can be done for variety shows, Variety shows can also be done for drama. This is not the upstream and downstream of a contempt chain, but the side and the other side of a river. This river is the attention of the audience. The last people and works in the variety show are selected after many days. What can be recognized has its reason and value. And the classic re-interpretation is also a constant plate, a work, this year is ice, next year is water, and the next year is water vapor, which makes everyone very curious. The place."
Although he does not directly participate in the selection of the repertoire, in his opinion, the art director system is like "eyes are your eyes, and the world is the complete world", "if you look at the world with triple filters and quadruple sunglasses, it It will show a kind of appearance, but that is not true. Therefore, a person who chooses a play must be 360° without blind spots, can see that there is a connection between different types of dramas, and everyone can see the difference. , But not everyone can see the connection. Wuzhen Theater Festival is not a flower bed, but a botanical garden. Therefore, every year there are unexpected surprises, and there are unavoidable sighs. Every one of us can afterwards Zhuge Liang after watching it. , To say that certain dramas should not come, or why they can be selected, but the person who chooses this drama is required to be forward-looking and work harder to gaze at all the possibilities of the world. This is actually very difficult. of."
I like to read illocutionary notes and illocutionary meanings in scripts
Liu Zhenyun, a self-proclaimed writer who doesn’t understand drama, has undergone stage adaptations in two works this year, namely "One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences" and "I Am Not Pan Jinlian". "I learned a lot as the writer of the novel when adapting the drama. At first, I felt that the adaptation was impossible. Later, during the rehearsal, they did not let me go, saying that I didn’t understand, and they came to add chaos. When I watched the first performance in the theater for the first time, I found that the structure of the drama is completely different from the novel. There are many limitations in drama, and an excellent dramatist will definitely be able to open up an infinite space in a limited space and bring an artistic conception beyond the stage."
In daily life, Liu Zhenyun loves to read scripts, "Shakespeare, Gogol, I was reading Pinter's works not long ago. The lines that I have learned the most from everyone's works are lines, which are full of overtones and overtones. The scripts and plays are not yet available. Similarly, in case the director level is not high, it is better to read the script." At the moment, another novel by Liu Zhenyun, "I am not Pan Jinlian" is being adapted from the drama. It’s the same, but the only thing that’s the same is that the crew still doesn’t let him watch it. But for the author, the actual creation is when it is not written."
Drama ideals are always shining here
As the art director, Meng Jinghui is the "eye" of this year's invitation to the repertoire. From seeing to selection and making the trip, it is a thankless task, because there will always be someone who asks the art director to "pay the bill" for his own preferences.
Foreign repertoires are impossible. In Meng Jinghui’s view, this is precisely an opportunity for domestic creators. "Whether you are young or mature, you are not simply required in Wuzhen. You are not required to have a professional aesthetic vision." The same. In the past two years, foreign dramas, especially in Europe, have shown a blowout creative state. I must regret the lack of foreign scripts, but since they can't come, Wuzhen is a habitat for Chinese drama workers."
Since 2013, the 8-year-old Wuzhen Drama Festival is no longer just an IP in the eyes of Meng Jinghui. "She contains a stored power, creativity, imagination, and lifestyle. Wuzhen is an overall atmosphere, and she is said to be dreamlike. In fact, it is very illusory. The works you see, all your feelings, originally here we are watching together, now we are playing together and feeling together. This place has become a place where we can perceive, communicate and think. Until now, we have not contributed to drama. The festival sets a so-called direction, which is diversified professionalism, internationalization and contemporaryness. Everything is not in a hurry, take it slowly, but the only thing needed is strength. Wuzhen is a dream, where people who engage in drama can get attention And respect, oneself produces a kind of love, and at the same time I see many friends, connect with each other, have dramatic communication, and have a clear judgment of oneself, and the growth of a person is completed in this way. Everything is so. Appropriate, the dramatic ideals for which you love crazy have been shining."
Text/Reporter Guo Jia
Photographer/Reporter Liu Chang
Coordinator/Man Yi